Nick: “Muntri Street is my favourite area of Georgetown — starting at the historic Chinese temple, and leading down to Stewart Street and the wonderful Seven Terraces Hotel, where I often stay. It is a city for walking. In the last few years, all these great coffee shops and bakeries have popped up, and of course it is recognised as the home of hawker food. There’s a fantastic fusion of cultures — Chinese, Indian, Malay, Peranakan and of associated faiths of Hindu, Muslim and Christianity. Most of all it is the sophistication and elegance of the Peranakan culture that is most captivating. The architectural heritage is so rich, with beautiful courtyard homes open in the middle to let the rain thunder in, and colonnades of tessellated tiles and ornamented doors adjoining.”